ROFLMAO - Peace protestor dies after falling from Golden Gate

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acehistr8

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OK in general I dont think people dying is funny, but in this case...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man protesting the looming U.S. war on Iraq fell to his death from San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge on Wednesday as he was hanging a banner, officials said.

"He appears to have been hanging a banner of some kind," said California Highway Patrol officer Timothy Willock. "We're not sure if he decided to jump or slipped while he was, you know, hanging the banner. That's unclear right now."


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wonder what the banner said........geez the guys dies....and we don't even know what it said.........:D
 
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Nudged...funny.

There were two Reuters stories. The early one had that pithy quote from the state trooper that Ace included.

The second one (released roughly 4 hours later) was by the spokesman for the state troopers. . .


"He jumped, he wasn't pushed," said California Highway Patrol spokesman Wayne Ziese, who called the death a suicide. "Apparently he had a statement to give to police and jumped."

Authorities had initially said the man slipped or jumped while hanging a banner on one of the bridge towers protesting a U.S. war on Iraq.

But U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Dan Brophy later said rescue workers so far had not found the banner indicating the man was a protester.

Still sounds like a loon, but a definite difference in the "humor" of it, or in the opportunity it gives people to pile on these poor misguided fools falling off bridges while trying to make their point.
 
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Give it time, and I will bet my bottom dollar a lawsuit comes out of this from the goober's family against the state for not having adequate safety measures installed to prevent people from slipping off the bridge.
 
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